【时间旅行者的妻子】94

I have a scar where it started to cut my forehead. I show Clare. It got my hat. The police couldnt figure it out. All my clothes were in the car, on the seat and the floor, and I was found stark naked by the side of the road. You time traveled. Yes.

【时间旅行者的妻子】10

It begins with September 23, 1977, and ends sixteen small, blue, puppied pages later on May 24, 1989. I count. There are 152 dates, written with great care in the large open Palmer Method blue ball point pen of a six-year-old. You made the list? Thes

【时间旅行者的妻子】09

She said she was a little girl? A plethora of unanswerables runs through my head. I stop and breathe for a minute. Okay. I grab my wallet and my keys, and away I go: lock the thirty-seven locks, descend in the cranky little elevator, buy roses for Cl

【时间旅行者的妻子】08

I say Have we met? and Isabelle gives me a look that says You asshole. But the girl says, Im Clare Abshire. I knew you when I was a little girl, and invites me out to dinner. I accept, stunned. She is glowing at me, although I am unshaven and hung ov

【时间旅行者的妻子】05

THE MAN OUT OF TIME Oh not because happiness exists, that too-hasty profit snatched from approaching loss. But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps call

【时间旅行者的妻子】15

You? Roscoe Village, on Hoyne. But I have a roommate. If you come up to my place you have to close your eyes and count to one thousand. Perhaps you have a very uninquisitive deaf roommate? No such luck. I never bring anyone over; Charisse would pounc

【时间旅行者的妻子】17

Why Poor Henry? Im overcome with happiness. And its true. Oh, Ive been dropping all these surprises on you like big rocks. Clare swings a leg over me so shes sitting exactly on top of my cock. It concentrates my attention wonderfully. Dont move, I sa

【时间旅行者的妻子】19

and see that its only 6:30. Im too restless to get back into bed. I walk into the kitchenette in search of coffee. All the counters and the stove are covered with stacks of dishes, magazines, and other reading material. Theres even a sock in the sink

【时间旅行者的妻子】25

The great elephants loom menacingly over me in the moonlight and I wave to them on my way to the little gift shop to the right of the main entrance. I circle the wares and find a few promising items: an ornamental letter opener, a metal bookmark with

【时间旅行者的妻子】26

Im mostly sober now, and reasonably alert. Time passes, nothing happens. At last: I hear a soft thud, a gasp. Silence. I wait. I stand up, silently, and pad into the Hall, walking slowly through the light that slants across the marble floor. I stand

【时间旅行者的妻子】42

We enter the European Galleries and make our way backward from the seventeenth-century Netherlands to fifteenth-century Spain. St. George stands poised, as always, ready to transfix his dragon with his delicate spear while the pink and green princess

【时间旅行者的妻子】43

My hand is in her purse, shes flustered, she has dark eyes and long hair, large breasts, shes still trying to lose the weight she gained having the kid. I catch her eye as I find her wallet, still apologizing, the wallet goes up my jacket sleeve, I l

【时间旅行者的妻子】53

Francie asks Gayle what she was doing with Michael Planner at the Dairy Queen last Saturday. (Answer: eating ice cream. Well, duh.) After a while we all get bored with Truth or Dare, mainly because its hard to think of good dares that any of us will

【时间旅行者的妻子】58

She is always experimenting, always attempting the coup declat. Who do you like now? she asks without looking up. You mean at twenty? Or at thirty-six? Both. I try to remember being twenty. Its just a blur of women, breasts, legs, skin, hair. All the

【时间旅行者的妻子】68

Clare laughs. Youre doing it again! What? Telling me what I like. Clare burrows into my lap with her feet. Without thinking I put her feet on my shoulders, but then that seems too sexual, somehow, and I quickly take Clares feet in my hands again and

【时间旅行者的妻子】87

Its Henry, right? I shake my head, and put my finger to my lips. We have arrived at the girls gym. We walk into the locker room and abracadabra! all the girls stop talking. Then theres a low ripple of talk that fills the silence. Helen and I have our

【时间旅行者的妻子】86

CLARE: At school on Monday, everybody looks at me but no one will speak to me. I feel like Harriet the Spy after her classmates found her spy notebook. Walking down the hall is like parting the Red Sea. When I walk into English, first period, everyon

【时间旅行者的妻子】83

Shes a.. .cock.. .tease. She has no idea. Its like torturing a kitten because it bit you. Jason doesnt answer. His breath comes in long, shivering whinnies. Just as I am becoming concerned, Clare arrives. She holds up the inhaler, looks at me. Darlin

【时间旅行者的妻子】79

Clare stares at her lap. I dont want to talk about it. Couldnt you just take my word that he totally deserves it? I think I know whats going on; I think Ive heard this story before. I sigh, and move closer to Clare, and put my arm around her. She lea

【时间旅行者的妻子】78

The car glides down the drive, around the bend and into the night. I walk after it toward a bed in the Meadow under the stars. Sunday, September 27, 1987 (Henry is 32, Clare is 16) HENRY: I materialize in the Meadow, about fifteen feet west of the cl